Zambia glad for Sunzu

[Folami David]

Zambia say they are glad with the opportunity for their key defender Stoppila Sunzu to move on to Reading this week, even though he is a key component of their squad for the African Nations Cup finals.
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The centre back travelled to London at the weekend for a trial with the Premier League strugglers with the blessing of his football association, a week before his side begin their defence of the African title at the tournament in South Africa.
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'' The Zambia national team will always be there but opportunities like this do not come around often in a player's career so we are happy to let him go '', said Football Association of Zambia president Kalusha Bwalya.
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'' We have agreed with Reading, his club TP Mazembe and ourselves that he takes up this chance. Reading were quite insistent on seeing him so it is a good sign '' he told Reuters on Tuesday.
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'' Ultimately it is advantageous to our team to have players from clubs at the highest level ''.